Tsangari Plate Coin

Triton XVI, Lot: 374. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 220-205 BC. AR Didrachm (24mm, 10.41 g, 2h). Head of Apollo right, wearing oak wreath / Aitolos standing left, kausia hung around neck and sword slung at waist, holding spear in right hand, right foot set on rock, leaning on raised right knee; to left, head of Athena, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, left above API above MΔK monogram; AITΩΛΩN to right. Tsangari 807a (D39/R118) = BCD Akarnania 448 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; Winterthur 1863 (same obv. die). Good VF, attractively toned. Fine style.

Ex BCD Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 23, 18 October 2007), lot 448; Auctiones 8 (27 June 1978), lot 183.